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Google is eating itself: All sites marked as harmful?

This is funny.  For the past thirty minutes or so, Google’s Safe Browsing service has been flagging all search results as harmful (the dreaded “This site may harm your computer” link), including those for Google’s own pages.  

Google Warning: Google sites may be harmful.

Here’s the actual warning page itself:

Warning Page

UPDATE1: This is definitely widespread.

UPDATE2: Fixed, after thirty minutes or so.  

UPDATE3: Naturally, on TechMeme via TechCrunch.

UPDATE4: Some donkey checked in a list of bad sites with a ‘/’ at the top.  Heh.

Hack proof servers

Apprehensive about signing up with GetFriday after reading about the firm’s recent improvements on Ferriss’s blog? Cast those fears aside! From GetFriday’s “Our Process” page, listed as one of their security measures:

“Hack proof servers”

See? Hack-proof. Nothing to worry about . . .

You know you work with nerds when . . .

Seen on a broken toilet paper dispenser: